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June 18, 2006
DVD NOW AVAILABLE
The DVD of Descent is now available exclusively from Amazon.com.
September 6, 2004
Descent director Jay Holben and cinematographer Christopher Probst will attend the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival screening on Wednesday September 8th at the ArcLight Theaters in Hollywood, CA.
September 5, 2004
Descent has been picked as an official selection of the Manhattan Short Film festival, which tours to seven US cities ending in the famous New York Union Square on September 18th. Descent was chosen as one of twelve films out of more than 800 submissions.
August 27, 2004
Descent director Jay Holben and cinematographer Christopher Probst will attend the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and participate in a Q&A to follow the screening on Wednesday night.
August 26, 2004
Descent has been selected as an official part of the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival to be playing at the ArcLight Theaters in Hollywood, California. It will screen September 8th.
August 20, 2004
Descent has been given the honor of being an official selection of the Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts. It will screen September 1st at the acclaimed festival in the desert.
August 15, 2004
Descent has been chosen as an official selection of the Hermosa Beach Short Film Festival in Hermosa Beach, California.
July 20, 2004
Descent has been chosen as an official selection of the Ubisoft Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. This will be the Canadian premiere of the film. It will screen July 25, 2004.
April 15, 2004
Descent has been chosen as an official selection of the Hollywood Shorts film festival in Hollywood. It will screen April 18, 2004. Jay Holben is a member of the Hollywood Shorts Emerging Directors Program. Also screening is Hold Up which was photographed by Holben for director/actress Tanya Boyd.
April 2, 2004
Descent has been chosen as an official selection of the Dead By Dawn film festival in Edinburgh Scotland. It will screen, along with Jay Holben's Hunger at the festival which runs April 22-25, 2004. Screening times TBD. For more information, visit the official Dead By Dawn Film Festival website.
March 24, 2004
Director of Photography Christopher Probst is awarded the acclaimed International Cinematographer's Guild Film Showcase Award for his work on Descent. The film will screen with the other ICG Award recepients at a special presentation on April 25, 2004 at the Director's Guild of America in Hollywood, California. Subsequent screenings to be held in New York and Cannes, France as part of the ICG presentation at the Kodak Pavillion at the Cannes International Film Festival.
March 6 & 7, 2004
A special Advance screening of Descent is held at the Cinequest San Jose Film Festival before the world premiere screening of Your Half Picture's 30 Miles on March 6th and 7th.
March 1, 2004
A rough HD Cam online assembly is completed at Match Frame Post in North Hollywood for the Cinequest Special Advance screening.
March 1, 2004
Art Wright completes the rough mix with the temporary score for the Special Advance screening at Cinequest.
February 25, 2004
First meeting with director Jay Holben and sound designer Art Wright to hear the first-stages of the rough mix.
December 15, 2003
The final edit is locked.
December 14, 2003
Meeting with composer Buck Sanders for score spotting session on nearly complete cut.
October 27, 2003
First test screening for a select audience of industry professionals.
October 19, 2003
First screening of a rough-cut work-in-progress for executive producer Ryan Harper.
August 28, 2003
First full edit session with Dan O'Brien begins.
July 27, 2003
Editor Dan O'Brien and director Jay Holben meet to review all of the footage shot during photography and exchange notes on how the edit should proceed.
July 6, 2003
In the early morning hours, with just Holben and Probst working, production wraps on top of a parking garage in Los Angeles, California where the inner-workings of the elevator are shot.
July 1, 2003
Halfway through day two of production, the final location is secured. The shooting schedule must be altered to accomodate a limited window of availability for the office building location and an additional 'skeleton crew' day is added to the schedule after the 4th of July holiday.
June 30, 2003
After equipment pick-ups take up the better part of the day, shooting starts in the early evening at an office building in Santa Monica, California.
June 27, 2003
5:30pm - after failing to secure a major location, the decision almost made to pull the plug on the film. Producer Probst, by sheer force of will, keeps the production on track.
June 18, 2003
A new window of dates are finally chosen for principal photography - June 30 - July 3, 2003. Pre-production moves into full swing with just seven working days before the start of production.
June 10, 2003
Original start date for principal photography of Descent is pushed due to and abrupt change in the availability of key resources. No new date is set at this time.
May 31 - June 3, 2003
After a week of searching and contacting writers within their network to no avail. Holben begins work on his elevator idea. The script is written in a day and over the next two days, Probst and Holben bounce several drafts back and forth before they're satisfied. The script will eventually see more than half a dozen distinct drafts - including three different endings - before a shooting script is finally locked.
May 24, 2003
Project proposed. Holben teams with Probst to produce the short and the duo begin searching for material.
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